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  2. How to stop intrusive thoughts once and for all, according to ...

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    Start at one end of your body and squeeze your muscles for five seconds one after the other until you get to the muscles on the other end. As you squeeze, visualize the tightened muscle, exhale ...

  3. Intrusive thought - Wikipedia

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    When intrusive thoughts occur with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), patients are less able to ignore the unpleasant thoughts and may pay undue attention to them, causing the thoughts to become more frequent and distressing. [7] Attempting to suppress intrusive thoughts often cause these same thoughts to become more intense and persistent. [11]

  4. Quiet the Anxiety in Your Head—20 Best Ways To Stop ... - AOL

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    5. Breathe Deeply. Overthinking can cause anxiety, which leads to physical symptoms like a racing heart. Take time to breathe deeply. Take at least ten deep breaths, counting slowly as you go ...

  5. Obsessive–compulsive disorder - Wikipedia

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    Frequency. 2.3% [6] Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) is a mental and behavioral disorder in which an individual has intrusive thoughts (an obsession) and feels the need to perform certain routines (compulsions) repeatedly to relieve the distress caused by the obsession, to the extent where it impairs general function. [1][2][7] Obsessions ...

  6. Obsession vs. Compulsion: Effect on Actions and Thinking - AOL

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    Intrusive thoughts of harming your baby. Mentally repeating a prayer 10 times every time that thought comes up to stop it from happening. "I can only breathe the air within my house or I will get ...

  7. Post-traumatic embitterment disorder - Wikipedia

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    Post-traumatic Embitterment disorder; Specialty: Psychiatry, Clinical psychology: Symptoms: Severe emotional symptoms and behavioral problems in direct temporal connection to the triggering event; recurring intrusive thoughts; avolition; dysphoric-aggressive-depressive mood; unspecific somatic symptoms; phobic avoidance of persons or places related to the triggering event; fantasies of ...

  8. Complex post-traumatic stress disorder - Wikipedia

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    Complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD, sometimes hyphenated C-PTSD) is a stress-related mental disorder generally occurring in response to complex traumas, [1] i.e., commonly prolonged or repetitive exposures to a series of traumatic events, within which individuals perceive little or no chance to escape.

  9. What are intrusive thoughts? Experts weigh in on a ... - AOL

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